Political Parties


Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25963 Elected
Labour 14149
Social Democratic Party 13900

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29259 Elected
Labour 17121
Social Democratic Party 12674

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30204 Elected
Labour 22439
Liberal Democrat 8558
Green 766

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 27750 Elected
Conservative 16043
Liberal Democrat 4141
Referendum Party 1931
UK Independence Party 322
Independent 230

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 19488 Elected
Conservative 12718
Liberal Democrat 5009
UK Independence Party 1137
Monster Raving Loony Party 383
Justice Party 271
Socialist Labour Party 260
Socialist Alliance 251

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Labour 16411 Elected
Conservative 16374
Liberal Democrat 6503
British National Party 1277
UK Independence Party 935
Democratic Socialist Alliance 263
Justice Party 210

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 21264 Elected
Labour 15336
Liberal Democrat 6844
British National Party 1672
UK Independence Party 1382
Green 598
Justice Party 265
Independent 143

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 22829 Elected
Labour 16303
UK Independence Party 6979
Liberal Democrat 1339
Green 1100

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 25426 Elected
Labour 22969
Liberal Democrat 1878

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 27040 Elected
Labour 18680
Liberal Democrat 2728
Green 1451

More information about the 2019 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election


The election result data we hold includes over three hundred party labels, so we have simplified them to these seven simple categories. Of course, most candidates in most elections, and almost every candidate who won, was standing for one of the main parties, but an enormous range of labels have been used by one or two candidates. These groupings have been defined based almost entirely on the party labels, rather than detailed research into party policies, but including words like 'Labour' or 'Conservative' in ...


your party label says a lot about where you stand, and even more about the people voting for you. 'Left' means broadly speaking candidates to the left of the Liberal or Labour parties, 'Right' candidates to the right of the Conservatives. 'Nationalist' means any kind of nationalist, even including Isle of Wight nationalists.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Crawley BCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/12755867/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 01st May 2024